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From CNN.com: It’s given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses — but when it came to creating a “Street View” of a desert, Google hit on a low-tech solution. It hired a camel. The beast has become the first animal to carry Google’s Trekker camera, which is typically hoisted by humans to capture 360-degree images …
I’m a little behind in my podcasts, but today I listened to a Fresh Air broadcast from 6 weeks ago about all the data that online services know about you. Investigative reporter Julia Angwin was curious what Google knew about her, so she asked the company for her search data. “It turns out I had …
From the New York Times: The two leading analysis companies tracking the PC industry just delivered their reports on the fourth quarter of 2013, and it was bad. Gartner had worldwide PC shipments for the quarter at 82.6 million units, a drop of 6.9 percent on the number a year ago. It was the seventh …
A good starting point to learn how to Root the Samsung Galaxy Discover SGH-S730M http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069801 USB drivers for Samsung phones http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2038555 http://uploaded.net/file/xdloq4jw Another old thread about unlocking the Samsung Galaxy Discover http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39420121 Instructions for how to unlock the Samsung Galaxy Gio http://forums.redflagdeals.com/samsung-gio-79-99-fs-1084743/26-print/ How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Discover SGH-S730M http://theunlockr.com/2013/08/16/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-discover-sgh-s730m/ GalaxSim Unlock – an …
Occasionally I get a couple of PDFs that I need to unlock or want to merge. There are a series of websites that will help you with this. They all appear to be run by the same people: PDFUnlock! – Unlock secured PDF files online for free PDFSplit! – Split PDF files online for free …
From Time Magazine’s Techland: The news isn’t shocking. In fact, it’s sort of a shock it didn’t happen several years ago. After slightly more than thirty years in print, PCWorld magazine is ceasing publication, effective with the current issue, to focus on its website and digital editions.”
From the New York Times: “The Croods” is a caveman movie from DreamWorks Animation that comes out March 22. The subject may be paleolithic, but the technology approach may well be cutting edge. “Croods” is a digital product of about 250 billion pixels, with high-definition sound that, along with the images and story, is designed …
From the New York Times: Google’s various offices and campuses around the globe reflect the company’s overarching philosophy, which is nothing less than “to create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world,” according to a Google spokesman, Jordan Newman. But do its unorthodox workplaces and lavish perks yield the kind of creativity it prides …
From the Toronto Star: Rio is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are icons of the city. The first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they’re known, were installed Friday at Arpoador, a massive boulder that rises …
From the New York Times: “The first line of my obituary is going to mention the smiley face,” says Scott Fahlman, who would rather be remembered for his research into artificial intelligence. But like it or not, Fahlman has become famous for three keystrokes. In 1982, as a young professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he …